The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

[wout]

Hi Normb

You are correct with the J4 fuselage. The aircraft is the WemmerTwin by Mr. H.M.Wemmer of Pine Mountain Valley, Ga.
Year around 1955, two C65 and also J3 parts/components used.
Registration N30350 and this is still in the FAA register as a Piper J4, but the registration was only recently cancelled. Have no idea whether the Twin was brought back to J4 standards or that it lingered on in a dark corner of a hangar as the Twin.

May I invite you to post the next headache?

 

[pomme homme]

That's a fascinating story, Walter. But I wonder how Mr Wemmer was going to square things with the Piper Corp., vis a vis design rights, when he started production of his planned all metal project?

 

[normb]

wout,

Thanks for the offer to post but I pass to the real enthusiasts. One thing that amazes me is the thousands of aircraft that folks have designed, detailed, built and presumable flown. Then obscurity. Only remembered by we weird types....

Think of the effort to build and fly just one of these birds.

normb

 

[Dev One]

OK, Jumping in where angels.......
For the floater fans out there this might be easy.
Keith

 

[Moses03]

Keith,

This possibly one from the Nieuport IV Hydro line?

 

[lefty]

Moses will have to take the cookies here, although I think it's the Nieuport VIG.

 

[Dev One]

Now where do we go from here.....Lefty offering the cookies to Moses, when I have it as the Nieuport VI G of 1913, not the IV. So being cruel I think its Lefty's for being more accurate, at least as far as my information goes!
Keith

 

[lefty]

Now where do we go from here.....Lefty offering the cookies to Moses, when I have it as the Nieuport VI G of 1913, not the IV. So being cruel I think its Lefty's for being more accurate, at least as far as my information goes!
Keith

Thanks Keith, but Moses did the hard work and effectively told me which book to check, so the sherbet (and the cookies) should go to Texas !

Anyway, there are more fascinating mysteries lurking in that Frisco vault.......can't wait.

There is a nice pic of the VI G in Ray Sanger's Nieuport book -

 

[Moses03]

Lefty is being gracious here on my ham fisted job with the watery Nieuport.

Here is one that might be easy...or not?

 

[Dev One]

Is it as simple as a Martin 2 0 2? Unless of course its a Chinese copy which I cannot locate, & Wiki says nowt about!
Keith

 

[lefty]

Thought somebody would have pounced by now...... - -

Ahh, Keith beat me to it ! (Keith, you had better nippon and swat up on your Oriental identification !)

 

[Moses03]

No, this is the Kanasato KS-1 airliner of 1953...

Just kidding! Keith has nipped in correctly with the 'ol Martin.

(Half pint to Mike on the crafty smiley usage).

 

[Dev One]

Narrow squeak there Lefty!!!

Its funny some designs are immediately apparent, others.....
Anyway here is my next offering...sorry its not a top quality picture...
Keith

 

[lefty]

Amongst my bookmarks, Keith, in the 'Aircraft' section, is a sub-folder marked 'Eastern Europe' which contains many horrors from behind the Iron Curtain.
This Baltic beast is in there - the Lithuanian ANBO VIII.

 

[Dev One]

Thats the one.....but at that time I do believe Lithuania was not tied to the USSR.
Anyway, well done Mike.
Your turn now.
Keith

 

[lefty]

Thanks Keith. Here's a lovely old floater with the pilot apparently facing the wrong way......

 

[pomme homme]

It has characteristics which are similar to the 1911 Voisin canard amphibian. But then,equally, it has charcteristics which are not! So on reflection, I don't think that's what it is.

 

[lefty]

Too much reflection, dear sir, can be one's undoing. It IS the Canard-Voisin, at Monaco in 1912, piloted by the bold Paul Rugère.

 

[pomme homme]

The story of my life! I'll now try to find something challenging that, hopefully, hasn't put in an appearance before.

 

[pomme homme]

Well, I hope this hasn't appeared before. Google suggests not. And I apologise for the quality of the picture. This is how it came.